2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Vermont

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Vermont” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Information Science is the 58th most popular major in the country with 18,325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,394 and had an average of $28,852 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 115 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $99,287 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,418 and $24,482 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Vermont

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree is students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in Vermont

1

Norwich University
Northfield, Vermont

#4 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Norwich University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Vermont list. Norwich is a private not-for-profit institution located in Northfield, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 43 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Norwich University Information Science Report

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Saint Michael's College
Colchester, Vermont

#6 overall quality in Vermont

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IS Major in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Michael’s College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Colchester, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IS students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Science at Saint Michael’s College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science in the New England Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Science

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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